Derek Jarman: Queer
The paintings deal with love, sex and death and are a direct response to media coverage of the AIDS crisis in the UK.
Wednesday - Friday 12 noon - 6pm and Saturday 12 noon - 5pm
Amanda Wilkinson Gallery
Oisín Byrne: Act Natural
Oisín Byrne’s work considers how the self can be expressed or contained in the many layers that make up a person.
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 noon – 6pm
Jimmy DeSana and Laurie Simmons Double Trouble – AMANDA WILKINSON GALLERY
Jimmy DeSana and Laurie Simmons shared a studio in New York up until DeSana’s death from AIDS-related illness in 1990.
10 February 2022
Jimmy DeSana and Laurie Simmons: Double Trouble
Jimmy DeSana and Laurie Simmons shared a studio in New York up until DeSana’s death from AIDS-related illness in 1990. Simmons cites DeSana as one of her greatest influences and this show examines how that influence continues in Simmons’ later work, specifically in the use of fashion.
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 noon – 6pm
Joan Jonas: Fawn Grove
This exhibition was inspired by a short text by Joan Jonas, ‘Fawn Grove’, originally published in an issue of the magazine Art-Rite in 1974. The text recounts a walk that Jonas took through the countryside with her dog Sappho.
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 noon – 6pm
Derek Jarman: When yellow wishes to ingratiate it becomes gold
This exhibition brings together paintings from 1982 – 1992, a rich and turbulent period in Jarman’s life.
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 noon – 6pm
Jimmy DeSana and the Sex Appeal of the Inorganic
The bodies in Jimmy DeSana’s photographs are posed with objects.
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Derek Jarman: Shadow Is the Queen of Colour
The paintings in this exhibition were made during 1989-1990, a moment when Derek Jarman was in the midst of creating his garden around Prospect Cottage in Dungeness.
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Laurie Simmons: Fake Fashion
Laurie Simmons is one of the most significant artists of the past forty years and a pioneer of the critique of photographic imagery associated with the ‘Pictures Generation’ of the late 1970s and early ’80s in New York. This exhibition at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, the second presentation at the gallery’s Soho space, follows previous shows at Wilkinson Gallery in 2014 and 2011.
Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm
Jewyo Rhii
In this inaugural exhibition at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, Jewyo Rhii presents a horizontal sculpture that echoes the shape of the vertical fence in a previous installation, ‘Walls to Talk to’.
Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm